Highlights
- NBA 2K24, the newest installment within the basketball sim franchise, has obtained overwhelmingly damaging reception on Steam on account of lack of latest options and a rise in microtransactions.
- The sport has develop into the lowest-rated on Steam, surpassing Overwatch 2, with solely about 8% of gamers recommending it. It presently holds the highest spot in Steam 250’s “Corridor of Disgrace” listing.
- Complaints from gamers embody the sport being a “copy-paste” of the earlier yr’s model, lack of next-gen efficiency on PC, absence of crossplay, glitches, crashes, and a storyless MyCareer mode. Console variations additionally obtained mediocre scores on Metacritic.
The just lately launched NBA 2K24 is now the lowest-rated sport on Steam, a title beforehand held by Overwatch 2. Launched final week, it appears protected to say that the most recent 2K Sports activities sim hasn’t seen the reception the writer may need hoped for.
Developed by Visible Ideas and revealed by 2K, NBA 2K24 is the final installment of the long-running basketball sim franchise. The sport was launched on September 8, with the developer boasting that it’s the most aesthetic sport within the collection. NBA 2K24 can also be the primary sport to function crossplay, although not on PC. Nonetheless, many gamers felt that wasn’t sufficient to compensate for the dearth of latest options in different areas or the numerous improve in microtransactions.
Pushback in opposition to the brand new NBA 2K sport has been intense, particularly on Steam, the place the sport has a score of “Overwhelmingly Unfavorable.” The sport’s Steam consumer critiques just lately plunged to an unimaginable low, with solely about 8% of gamers recommending the sport as of this writing. This is sufficient to substitute Blizzard’s Overwatch 2 because the platform’s lowest-rated sport.
Launched in 2017, the web site Steam 250 tracks the consumer critiques for each sport on Steam. Whereas the web site is finest identified for its listing of the 250 finest video games on Steam, it additionally maintains a “Corridor of Disgrace” itemizing the least-popular video games on the platform. NBA 2K24 is presently sitting on the high of that listing. It is just barely worse than Overwatch 2, which has an general score of about 9% on Steam. Additionally they have the dishonor of being among the many solely three AAA video games within the backside 10, alongside the Name of Obligation: Trendy Warfare 2 remake.
Shopping NBA 2K24‘s Steam Critiques, the dearth of latest options and the dearth of next-gen efficiency on PC appear to be the commonest complaints. One participant described it as a “copy-paste” of final yr’s sport, and lots of felt that 2K and Visible Ideas had executed the naked minimal on the PC model. The PC port of NBA 2K24 additionally lacks crossplay, which is likely one of the sport’s foremost promoting factors on consoles. Different criticisms included the MyCareer mode missing a narrative, hackers in multiplayer, and the rise in microtransactions. NBA 2K24 additionally has a extreme glitch downside, and a number of customers report experiencing crashes.
A few of these issues are distinctive to NBA 2K24‘s PC launch, although not all console gamers are having a good time both. The PS5 model has an unimpressive Metacritic rating of 68, whereas the Xbox Sequence X model has a score of 61. In the meantime, Metacritic consumer scores are usually not that a lot better than its Steam critiques, with gamers giving NBA 2k24 2.4/10 on PS5 and Sequence X.
NBA 2K24 is obtainable for PC, PS4, PS5, Change, Xbox One, and Xbox Sequence X/S.
Supply: Steam 250
